We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.